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diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md index 63c0f014..789e3bec 100644 --- a/docs/faq.md +++ b/docs/faq.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ **Q:** If Textadept is so minimalist, why are the downloads around 10MB in size and the -unzipped folders 10s of MBs in size? +unzipped folders 10s of MBs in size? Why is the Git repository more than 50MB in +size? **A:** Each download contains 2 executables: a GUI version and a terminal version. @@ -14,6 +15,11 @@ the Linux executables statically link in a newer version of libstdc++. Finally, nightly builds are compiled with debug symbols enabled in order to aid debugging of various issues. +The Git repository is an export of an underlying Mercurial repository and is not +compressed or optimized for size. After the initial clone, you can run +`git gc --aggressive` to reduce its footprint to about a third of the original +size. + - - - **Q:** |